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Fresh water is becoming a scarce resource in the United States and across the globe as demand continues to rise due to population and business growth. This emergent scarcity means businesses will face more consequences of the complex regulatory and legal frameworks governing water use and water quality.

Michael Best’s Water team understands those issues. We guide clients through the heavily regulated, politically sensitive environment surrounding the management of, investment in, and development of water resources.

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From artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and cryptocurrency, the rapid evolution of technology shows no sign of slowing down. Companies in the digital technology sector are among the world’s most highly valued companies, with good reason. And businesses in every sector now use digital technology in all kinds of ways, from basic email to sophisticated data analytics.

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In today’s rapidly changing market, you need an intellectual property team that will enhance and safeguard your competitive position. Our nationally recognized IP practice offers three key advantages: we know your business; we understand your technology; and we have the advocacy skills to help you develop, manage, and protect your intellectual assets.

Michael P. Santonocito

Overview

A member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, Michael focuses primarily on the drafting and prosecution of patents in electrical and optical technologies. He has provided services to clients ranging from sole inventors to Fortune 500 corporations.

Michael has particular experience in technology related to smartphone hardware, especially displays and image sensors. He has worked extensively with OLED, LCD, and touch-sensing technologies for smartphone as well as television applications. His experience with image sensor includes lenses, signal-processing circuitry, and the sensors themselves.

Efficient and effective, he is quick to identify relevant IP issues and able to explain them in layman’s terms. These abilities are especially valuable to his inventor-clients, with whom he frequently works to provide infringement, clearance, and patentability analyses.

Michael brings a valuable technical and IP background to his practice. He worked with the Nuclear Theory Group at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University while a student in physics there. He also served as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where he focused on flat-screen displays, LED lighting and optical filters.

Experience

Helped a manufacturer of telecom equipment gain a patent that it had been pursuing unsuccessfully for nine years. The patent was granted after an interview with the USPTO examiner and further amendments.

Assisting a consumer electronics company with ongoing licensing negotiations involving patents with still-pending family members as well as with infringement dispute with competitor

Representing a consumer electronics company that is a member of an industry group requiring that “essential patents” must be freely licensed to other members. Drafted claims to avoid “essential patents” provision

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